Investigation on Impact of Pandemic on Social- Emotional learning of Student Community

Abstract

Social-emotional learning (SOEL) is the process of developing self-control on physical , mental, and societal and interpersonal skills which play a vital role in a student’s life during his high school, undergraduate and during career building and finally succeed in his life. When the pandemic has occurred, people struggled intensely for survival. There has been a huge gap in identifying the troubles faced by student community, both in schools and colleges. The paper deals with situation before Pandemic, how the learning environment was and how it is, after the pandemic. The authors conducted a survey amongst college going students who expressed their mental in-abilities and psychological struggles after pandemic. The students spent most of their critical time of their engineering study online and at home. A detailed study and discussions in this paper has been made. The paper explains the techniques to develop social and emotional skills, which eventually end up landing in positivity and wholesomeness. The paper concludes the methods to retain emotional ability and keep the mental strength high. Keywords—Pandemic, Social emotional learning, COVID-19, Mental Health, Higher education, Teaching